THE BOYS Amazon Adaptation Recreates The Cover Of Issue #1 For This First-Look Promo Pic

THE BOYS Amazon Adaptation Recreates The Cover Of Issue #1 For This First-Look Promo Pic

Amazon's small-screen take on Garth Ennis' The Boys has debuted its first promo poster, & it gives us a glimpse of the main team members as they appear on the cover of the first issue of the comic series.

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By MarkCassidy - Sep 26, 2018 02:09 PM EST
Filed Under: The Boys
Amazon has shared our first official look at its upcoming adaptation of Garth Ennis' The Boys.

The promo image features the main characters that make up the team standing in a circle, recreating the cover of the first issue of the comic series.

There's Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as "Wee" Hughie Campbell, Karen Fukuhara as The Female, and Laz Alonzo as Mother's Milk. The Frenchman is also present, but we have yet to be told who's playing him!



The Boys doesn't have a premiere date yet, but it will be with us at some point next year. The show hails from Supernatural creator and Timeless co-creator Eric Kripke, Preacher‘s Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, and Sony Pictures TV.
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Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 9/26/2018, 2:38 PM
Someone went HAM on Urban's eyebrows!
CLTMAN29
CLTMAN29 - 9/26/2018, 2:40 PM
Tomer Kapon has been announced as Frenchmen for months. Although not listed on ImDb now..
ThePott
ThePott - 9/26/2018, 2:42 PM
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 9/26/2018, 2:56 PM
HOLY SHIT!
Asturgis
Asturgis - 9/26/2018, 2:57 PM
Kind of excited about this. Ennis is by all standards a pioneer in the comic world, well, "pioneer" might not be the right word in english, but let's say he was the first to delve into some pretty hardcore territory. He's done some good things, but he's also batshit crazy, so let's hope he's not too involved in this, like he's not too involved in Preacher. That turned out great.

The Boys is one of the series that inspired Wicked + Divine, one of the best titles of those past few years. The series got a lot of hate from feminists for the way women are treated and objectified in it. I remember a few scenes where at the time I thought "Wow", and to sock me, it takes a lot. But at the time the most hardcore superhero comics we had were probably Authority and Planetary. Violent, but still vanilla. The Boys is more hardcore than that. It's men screwing women on their desk and telling them where they'll cum, women being squashed to death by superheroes fighting, leaving their boyfriend holding a severed hand, rape scenes, zoophilia, you name it.

That being said, it's also smart, progressist, humane in some ways, funny (at times) and it has a lot of layers to it. Superheroes are the bad guys, they're scum, act like scum, and you want The Boys to get rid of them (The Boys are a CIA team of specialists tasked with eradicating superheroes). The story is good, but I'm pretty sure if people were to read it nowadays, if it was news on the comic stand, there would be articles screaming about "Superman" forcing a female superhero to have sex with him to join the "Justice League", and a lot, a LOT, of scenes featuring sexual abuse, sexual degradation, taboo practices, ultra violence… It's basically POWERS for very mature and open-minded adults.

I have no idea what that's gonna be like on TV. Close to American Gods, probably.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/26/2018, 3:09 PM
@Asturgis - I think it started off well, but descended into pure shock factor for the sake of it. Preacher had very controversial elements but I never really felt that it was adding them just to be controversial... that was The Boys all over after a certain point.
OptionFour
OptionFour - 9/26/2018, 5:01 PM
@Asturgis - To be fair for those who haven't read it, the vast majority of the time these acts are contextualized as being awful, awful things done by even worse people. You're not supposed to really like the people who are doing these things. Its not all just for gits and shiggles, and a big part of the story is driving home how dreadful all of it is. Its not treated lightly.
OptionFour
OptionFour - 9/26/2018, 5:03 PM
@RorMachine - Interestingly, I had the exact opposite take on those two. I felt like Preacher did shocking and over the top just for the sake of it. Aw well. To each their own.
CLTMAN29
CLTMAN29 - 9/27/2018, 3:40 AM
@RorMachine - I actually think the opposite, the first half of the run is all shock and funnies but just, just, when you think 'Okay, okay I get it, the story then kicks in and the whole mythology and conspiracy kicks into gear. My only issue with this is that they've blind casted, and without spoiling anything the race of one character REALLY REALLY is essential, which means the end game is clearly not going to be the same...which is a shame, the entire story just collapses without it.
Asturgis
Asturgis - 9/27/2018, 11:00 AM
@RorMachine - That's funny, I'm more like the user above, I thought it started very "shock factor for the sake of it", and then it got better and less gratuitous as the story unfolded :) To each their own!
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 9/26/2018, 2:59 PM
Off-Topic: @RorMachine

New Joker set video of him crying in the phone booth:
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 9/26/2018, 3:06 PM
This is dope, will definitely be giving this series a look
jj2112
jj2112 - 9/26/2018, 3:08 PM
I'm sure this will never get close to the excesses shown in the comic, but maybe it'll be interesting.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/26/2018, 3:34 PM
Lets go!!!
lemric
lemric - 9/26/2018, 4:24 PM
really bummed that the runaways panel and this panel overlap at nycc, so i can only go to one. im leaning torwards this because i got to go to runaways last year and it will be out in a few months anyways
N3lLiel
N3lLiel - 9/26/2018, 10:27 PM
Loved the comics, can't wait for this series !
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